Category: Art History

pp. vi; 260; xxvi. Numerous illustrations, including many full-page, on heavy stock with tissue guards. Full blue leather with gilt tooling worn at edges and corners; the spine with gilt titles and tooling and with five raised bands. Marbled endpapers and page edges. The book is filled not only with art commentary but it weaves, also, history and other notes. Some contents: Wiliam Hunt; Johannes Vermmer of Delft; The Present State of the Fine Arts in France; The Masters of Wood Engraving; The Lago di Garda; The Company of St. Luke, Florence; St. Ignatius Loyola and the Early Jesuits; Cleanin...
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Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940

By: Hamilton, George Heard

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, Penguin : 1984

Seller ID: 003620

ISBN-13: 9780140561296

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

608 pages; 307 illustrations. Tight binding; generally clean; occasional light underlining.
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Francis Bacon and Nazi Propaganda

By: Hammer, Martin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Tate Publishing : 2012

Seller ID: 005274

ISBN-13: 9781849760737

Binding: Black paper boards

Condition: Fine

224 pages; 137 illustrations. Bacon's artistic reaction to living with the rise of Fascism, Hitler, World War II, polarisation following the end of the war. Bacon's use of Fascist photography as base for his art. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century

By: Harrison, Charles; Francis Frascina; Gill Perry

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press : 1993

Seller ID: 005282

ISBN-13: 9780300055160

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

270 pages; 230 illustrations, color and b&w. Second in a series of four books about art and its interpretation from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Cotton Club

By: Haskins, Jim

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1977

Seller ID: 004464

ISBN-13: 9780394733920

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

170 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. "In pictures and text Jim Haskins tells the story: the gangsters who owned it; the celebrities who packed its tables; the performers; the famous acts; the music." Social history, prohibition, the Depression, war. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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Classical Narratives in Master Drawings

By: Howard, Seymour (edited by)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sacramento/Davis, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery/U. of California : 1972

Seller ID: 001280

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

64 pages; 49 b&w illustrations. Illustrations are gathered at the back of the book; earlier are offered comprehensive essays on each. Schools of Italian, French, Dutch, Danish and German are included. Clean and tight within; covers and spine with light wear.
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Linley Sambourne House

By: Jervis, Simon; Leonee Ormond; Anne Countess of Rosse (Foreword)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: London, The Victorian Society : 1987

Seller ID: 004969

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

16 pages; illustrations, color and b&w. Swanbourne Family Tree. Clean throughout, flat, no tears or marks; tight binding.
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The Age of Baroque

By: Kitson, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill : 1966

Seller ID: 002732

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

176 pages; 200 illustrations, 100 color; endpaper maps; charts; glossary. The author was Lecturer in the History of Art at Courtauld Institute of Art. From the series, Landmarks of the World's Art.
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The Visual Dialogue: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Art

By: Knobler, Nathan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston : 1971

Seller ID: 003064

ISBN-13: 9780030142567

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

502 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Like abstract but want to understand what they see in a Bierstadt landscape? Why do they line-up at The Metropolitan like that?
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The World of Vermeer: 1632-1675

By: Koningsberger, Hans

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1967

Seller ID: 002781

Binding: quarter-cloth w/ paper boards

Condition: Fine

192 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done, enjoyably readable primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new". An interesting chapter tells the story of the Vermeer forger, Han van Meegeren, who operated in the 1940s.
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Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline

By: Krens, Thomas (Foreword)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Guggenheim Museum Publications : 1996

Seller ID: 005256

ISBN-13: 9780892071678

Binding: Pictorial Card Wrappers

Condition: Fine

310 pages; numerous color illustrations, many full page. Evolution though the century. Notes; Chronology; Bibliography. Clean throughout; tight binding. More than 5-pounds; must ship Priority Mail.
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Panorama des Arts 1947

By: Lassaigne, Jacques ; Raymond Cogniat; Marcel Zahar

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Paris, Aimery Somogy : 1948

Seller ID: 004480

ISBN: no

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

304 pages; numerous b&w illustrations. A month-by-month report of the art events of 1947. Includes reviews, criticism, opinion, exhibitions in venues around the world. French text. Clean throughout. A light vertical crease on the first 12 pages, including front endpaper and title page. Dustjacket chipped at the spine and edges are worn.
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Movements in Art since 1945: Issues and Concepts - Third Edition, revised and expanded

By: Lucie-Smith, Edward

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Thames and Hudson : 1995

Seller ID: 002641

ISBN-13: 9780500202821

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

304 pages; 263 illustrations, 78 color.
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Europe in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Marandel, J. Patrice (introduction)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art : 1987

Seller ID: 001164

ISBN-13: 9780870994517

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Fine

160 pages plus maps at rear; 122 color illustrations. The MMA's presentation of their collection of late 18-century and early 19th-century European art as represented by the "finest objects in this curatorial department"; the seventh in a series of twelve volumes describing the MMA's collections. Rich red cloth with gilt titles.
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L' AMORE Dall'Olimpo all'alcova

By: Marzano, Marziano; Giulio Macchi; Omar Calabrese; Mario Trevi [et al.]

Price: $55.00

Publisher: Milano, Mazzotta : 1992

Seller ID: 002581

ISBN-13: 9788820210304

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

331 pages; numerous color illustrations. 12 essays.Nudes and lovemaking in art described in twelve essays by as many authors. More than 200 pages of color illustrations. Ex-Museum of Modern Art Library: only markings are 2 small labels and a rubber stamo in the margin of a preliminary page. Italian text.
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Modern Painting

By: Moore, George

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London / New York, Walter Scott, Ltd. / Charles Scribner's Sons : 1898

Seller ID: 005164

ISBN: no

Binding: Red cloth

Condition: Very Good

288 pages followed by advertisements. A classic. Still in print. Frontispiece portrait of Moore by Manet. Pages clean and crisp; previous owner's name on the front endpaper (1904). Boards in nice condition, modestly worn at corners; head and tail of spine show neat repair.
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The World of Delacroix: 1798-1863

By: Prideaux, Tom

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Time Inc. : 1966

Seller ID: 002778

Binding: quarter-cloth w/ paper boards

Condition: Fine

196 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done, enjoyably readable primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new".
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Louvre, Paris

By: Regoli, Gigetta Dalli; [et al.]

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Newsweek & Arnold Mondadori Editore : 1981

Seller ID: 002313

ISBN-13: 9780882252292

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

171 pages; numerous color illustrations. Preface by René Huyghe of the French Academy; text by five scholars familiar with the works; each of the great Louvre collections (Ancient Egypt, Persia, Christian Egypt, France, Italy, Flanders, etc.) is covered; history of the building and the collections; bibliography; index of illustrations. Clean and tight, nearly fine.
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Category: Art History